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Municipal Solid Waste Management in China

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Municipal Solid Waste Management in Asia and the Pacific Islands

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China is one of the largest nations in the world, encompassing a vast area, with diversified nationalities and cultures, and a very large population. It is also the largest developing country and which has relatively poor infrastructures and an underdeveloped industry. China has been undergoing a rapid urbanization, resulting in the enormous generation of municipal solid waste (MSW). In terms of municipal solid waste management, no country has ever experienced such a rapid increase or such large in MSW quantities that China is now facing. Along with this rapidly growing waste stream, MSW treatment technology has been improved, environmental legal framework has been established and developed, and public environmental awareness has also been promoted in the past three decades, although the MSW management in China still facing many challenges.

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  1. The State Key Laboratory of Pollution Control and Resource Reuse, Tongji University, 200092, Shanghai, China

    Su Lianghu, Huang Sheng, Niu Dongjie, Chai Xiaoli & Zhao Youcai

  2. Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, Tsinghua University, 100084, Beijing, China

    Nie Yongfeng

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  1. Institute of Biological Sciences, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

    Agamuthu Pariatamby

  2. Tottori Univ. of Environmental Studies Sustainability Research Institute, Tottori, Japan

    Masaru Tanaka

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Lianghu, S., Sheng, H., Dongjie, N., Xiaoli, C., Yongfeng, N., Youcai, Z. (2014). Municipal Solid Waste Management in China. In: Pariatamby, A., Tanaka, M. (eds) Municipal Solid Waste Management in Asia and the Pacific Islands. Environmental Science and Engineering. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-4451-73-4_6

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